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Elijah McClain

September 2024

  • Two men wearing gray suits and blue ties stand in a court room

    Paramedic convicted in Elijah McClain’s killing will be released from prison

    Judge reduces sentence to four years of probation for Peter Cichuniec, who injected McClain with ketamine in 2019

April 2024

  • Man in sunglasses and mask holds image of Elijah McClain during rally

    Paramedic convicted over Elijah McClain killing sentenced to probation

    Jeremy Cooper injected McClain, 23, with ketamine after police forcibly restrained him as he walked home in Denver in 2019

March 2024

  • Cards and flowers around memorial

    ‘They felt no need to stop the brutality’: Colorado paramedic gets five-year prison term for killing Elijah McClain

    Peter Cichuniec one of two paramedics convicted of criminally negligent homicide for role in 23-year-old’s death after police stop

January 2024

  • Protesters march to call for justice for Elijah McClain in Denver, Colorado, on 21 November 2020.

    Ex-police officer sentenced to 14 months in jail for killing Elijah McClain in 2019

    Randy Roedema, found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, is the first official to be sentenced in the 23-year-old’s killing

December 2023

  • Two white men in grey suits and blue ties.

    Elijah McClain: two Colorado paramedics convicted of criminally negligent homicide in 2019 killing

    EMTs Peter Cichuniec and Jeremy Cooper injected 23-year-old with high dose of ketamine in a case that sparked mass protests

November 2023

  • People visit a mural of Elijah McClain in Denver, Colorado on 8 August 2020.

    Paramedics ‘did nothing’ to help Elijah McClain and killed him with overdose, prosecutor says

  • Colorful images and photographs of a young Black man with candles and flowers.

    Officer acquitted in Elijah McClain death gets job back and $200,000 in back pay

September 2023

  • Elijah McClain poses in an undated photograph.

    Elijah McClain death: prosecutors show body camera footage as trial of officers begins

  • Demonstrators carry a sign during a rally and march over the killing of Elijah McClain in Aurora, Colorado, in June 2020.

    Trial of two Denver officers in killing of Elijah McClain set to open

January 2023

  • FILE - A makeshift memorial stands at a site across the street from where Elijah McClain was stopped by Aurora, Colo., Police Department officers while walking home, before family members hold a news conference, Friday, July 3, 2020, in Aurora, Colo. Three Aurora Police Department officers have left the force after photographs surfaced of them reenacting the chokehold used on McClain across the road from the memorial, which sits in the shadow of Interstate 225. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

    Elijah McClain: officers to enter pleas to charges in death of Black man put in chokehold

    23-year-old died after Colorado police put him in a chokehold and injected him with a large dose of the powerful sedative ketamine

November 2021

  • FILE PHOTO: Protesters gather for a rally to call for justice for Elijah McClain in Denver<br>FILE PHOTO: Protesters gather for a rally to call for justice for Elijah McClain after Governor Jared Polis amended his executive order regarding the investigation of McClain's death, which has raised concerns that charges against the police officers involved may ultimately be watered down in Denver, Colorado, U.S., November 21, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt/File Photo

    Elijah McClain’s family to reportedly receive $15m from Colorado in highest ever settlement

    The 23-year-old’s family had sued the Aurora police department accusing them of a longstanding pattern of racism and brutality

September 2021

  • Phil Weiser<br>Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser makes a point at a news conference in Denver, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Weiser says a civil rights investigation begun amid outrage over the death of Elijah McClain has determined that the Aurora, Colo., Police Department has a pattern of racially-biased policing. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

    Aurora police have pattern of racially biased policing, Colorado AG says

  • Mourners visit a mural of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after an encounter with police officers, in Denver, Colorado.

    Elijah McClain: Colorado grand jury indicts five over Black man’s death

February 2021

  • Protesters gather for a rally to call for justice for Elijah McClain in Denver<br>Protesters march to call for justice for Elijah McClain after Governor Jared Polis amended his executive order regarding the investigation of McClain's death, which has raised concerns that charges against the police officers involved may ultimately be watered down in Denver, Colorado, U.S., November 21, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    Elijah McClain death: Colorado police had no legal basis to restrain man, report finds

    The 23-year-old black man died after being stopped, put in a chokehold and drugged in Aurora, Colorado, in 2019

September 2020

  • People gather at the Confederate Museum during a protest in Charleston, South Carolina on June 20, 2015.

    $240 for ‘The Breonna’: outrage as jewelry line uses names of police brutality victims

    Jewelry line shuts down after using protest debris to make pieces condemned for profiting from deaths of black people

June 2020

  • Elijah McClain poses in an undated photograph<br>Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died days after he was subdued by three policemen and injected with a powerful sedative in August 2019, poses in an undated photograph in Aurora, Colorado, U.S.. Family photo/Handout via REUTERS. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT WAS PROCESSED BY REUTERS TO ENHANCE QUALITY, AN UNPROCESSED VERSION HAS BEEN PROVIDED SEPARATELY.

    'He was inspired by everything': friends and family pay tribute to Elijah McClain

    The 23-year-old killed by police in Colorado last year ‘just wanted to be better every day’, says a former colleague
  • People protest the death of Elijah McClain<br>Valerie Reives plays the viola while protesters shine their mobile phone lights to honor Elijah McClain, who, when alive, would play his violin at animal shelters because he thought the kittens were lonely, during a vigil in Aurora, Colorado, U.S., June 27, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Mohatt

    Elijah McClain: police use pepper spray to disperse violin vigil

    Largely peaceful event featured violin-playing in honor of McClain, a musician killed by police last year

    • Riot police confront peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain with pepper spray – video

    • Elijah McClain: Colorado appoints special prosecutor to investigate 2019 police killing

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